Nancy McNaughton is a Health Professional educator with over thirty years experience in the field of simulation based education primarily working with Simulated Participants. She is an Assistant Professor with the the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and Scientist with the Wilson Centre for Research in Education at the University Health Network. She is an instructor in the Health Professions Education Research (HPER) doctoral program, a collaboration between (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and the Wilson Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, at UHN.

Actively engaged as a researcher and educator, Dr. McNaughton works with a broad range of professional groups both inside and outside of healthcare. She engages in research locally, nationally and internationally. and designs and delivers curriculum, evaluation programs, and remediation activities. She is a critical qualitative researcher with special interest in the role of emotion and affect in communication training and professional development as well as power relations and questions of knowledge legitimacy.